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Surge testing will take place in north Kensington following the discovery of a number of cases of the South African variant.
All residents over the age of 16 and living in the Colville ward area of W11 have been asked to take a coronavirus swab.
Enhanced contact tracing will be deployed for those who test positive.
Symptomatic residents have been asked to stay at home and book a test online or by phone.
Those without symptoms are asked to visit the boroughs website here.
Residents have also been asked to continue using twice-weekly rapid testing as part of surge testing.
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Last month surge testing facilities were set up in three south London boroughs – Lambeth, Wandsworth and Southwark – after clusters of the variant were found.
A single case of the variant was also detected in Barnet, north London.